Making a Baseball team in Nicaragua
Tracy went down to Nicaragua immediately after her senior year at Emory as part of the Engineering World Health Summer Institute. I came down to visit her there and had my first eye opening experience with the third world. In nicaragua they are practically obsessed w/ baseball. Almost everyone plays it. There are teams everywhere. The only problem is that almost no one can even afford a ball or a bat. So most people play with sticks and a rock, or a ball if they have it. Upon coming back Tracy go it stuck in her head that she was going to get some baseball gear and send it down so that the hospital that she worked in could start a team and have equipment to play with. Well it turned out the Duke Baseball team was cleaning house for the summer and gave us a whole truckload of used gear. Balls, bats, hats, socks, and shoes. We went through all the stuff, packed a bag as full as we could and then sent it down w/ a friend who was going back to the area. A couple of months later, another friend our ours from Duke happened by the hospital and noticed a Nicaraguan baseball team sporting Duke gear! He then snapped this 1 in a Million photo.